The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-19
MlSCELlANE EOUS.

uoItnduI stdec IOr months, or years.
and revive in water at '72o.
Under new edict just promulgated
m Japan criminals are not to be exc
euted singly. When there is one he
must wait until there is another to keep
him company.-Detroit Free Press.
F. NJ. Davis, known in the Ceur-
dAlenes as Dream Davis" who found
Dream Gulch in vision and cleaned
up 1000, has spent all his wealth an6
committed suicide at Los Angeles, CAL.
"A Piute Indian was offered pound
of powder if he could eat five pounds of
boiled beef at one sitting, and he smiled
and wagged his jaws and devoured.
eight pounds. He wanted more, but it
was poor day for beef
"A man near Greeley, Col, hads
thirty acres of land which he could
neither sell nor mortgage. and ins
despair he went out and struck a coax
vein thirteen feet thick and sold the
land for $5S.OOO-N o. Times Demo-
crdt.
AN old skinflint was looking for n
furnished edroOm-''What will you charge,
me for this one for week." he asked.
Thirty francs" I'm give you twen--
ty-five." No, sir" Come, let me
have it for that; the days are so short
now" French Exchange.
A review of sunshine observations
in Great Britain has recently been pub
lished by the president of the Royal
Meteorological Society. 1t brings out
the interesting fact that in late autumn,
and winter Ireland is much SUMMER
than England or Scotland.-N z
Ledger.
Mrs. Ruth Smith, of Bridgeport.
Conn.,, dresses in blue silk, wears blue
spectacles, has her meals served on blue
glass dishes. and lives in a blue glass
room, which she has not left for more
than ten minutes at a time for eight
years. Chicago Herald.
That's mighty fine frescoing," re-
marked a travelling man who with a.
companion was visiting the Capitol in,
Washington. "Yes. l wonder how
they got it up there" 30. it's prob
ably put on with ceiling wax" was the
reply, which severed lifelong friend
ship.-Merchant Trareler.
House servants in Germany are
poorly paid, and work hard. Their
duties begin frequently before daybreak
and continue sometimes till past mid
night. The floors must be scrubbed
every other day, and the windows every
week; for this a broom is not known
but brush is the article used For her
services servant gets only about sixty
cents week.
The progress in electric lighting
has been remarkable. In 1880 the CEN
sus man did not consider the invest
ment in this business of sufficient i'm
portance to warrant him in collecting
the data. In the six years that have
since interviewed the progress has been.
so rapid that the investment in its vari--
Gus branches is rising S1O0.OOO,O0O.
Among this seasons crop Of jeuS-
d'esprit is the following sprightly little
anecdOte, which is said to be trde, and
is certainly good enough to be-
Edith" said a stern Senator to his
daughter, sis that young man, who pays
you so much attention lately, man of
brains?' ''I've not had an opportunity
to find out, papa" replied Edith de-
murely, 'Tve only met him in society,"
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Tele--
graph.
"A Canadian farmer near Luther was.
awakened by persons prowling ar0und
his house. He and his son arose and
fired shotguns at a man they saw. He
ran and was joined by two men in n
sleigh. One of the horses hitched to,
the sleigh cast shoe. The farmer
picked it up, and blythe aid of the black
smith who made it identified the prOwl-
ers, who proved to be neighbors, and
who paid good sum to keep the thing,
quiet.
1t is claimed that by a new process
whitewood can be made so tough as to,
require a cold chisel to split it. The
result is obtained by steaming the TIM
Der and submitting it to end pressure
technically "upsetting" it, thus COM
pressing the cells and fbers into one
compact mass. Itis the opinion of those
who have experimental with the process.
that the wood can be compressed.
seventy-five per cent, and that some
timber which is now considered unfit
for use in such work as carriage building
could be made valuable by this means
Boston Budget.
"A writer in the american AngLer,-
in trying to demonstrate that fish have
the power of communicating with each
other, and also possess a degree of in
telligence, says that he has seen on
several occasions small bodies of trout.
the lead of an elder and act
ing in accordance with its movements
On three occasions he has observed a
shoal of carp approached by a single.
which ultimately conducted
it to another part of the pond, where a
quantity of food existed.
1t is difficult to say just what ails.
the editor of the Reporter, of Abilene,
Tex, but this is the way he takes on
I'VE have learned to bow and dance
20 the music with nimble and elastic
step. It's wonderful how magical one
ieels as the music floods the heart with
sunshine, breaking up all gatherings
Df mist that environ the soul, and i'm
hihinor in our nature hiOh aspiratiOns,